‘Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’: 54 Thoughts I Had About the Series Finale

Well, divas, we’ve reached the end of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. While I am deeply ready for every woman in the West Village to stop wearing CBK-lite white oxford shirts with pencil skirts (a little originality, please, girlinas!), I am sad to see the end of this strangely addictive, if occasionally maddening, show. Where am I supposed to get my fix of ’90s New York nostalgia now? From Seinfeld? I’ve already seen every episode so many times that I use them as a kind of televisual Ambien to get to sleep!

Anyway, without further ado, here’s literally every thought I had about the season finale of Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.

1. Headband spotted!
2. Is that…Talia Balsam?
3. Truly an underrated Mad Men character (and John Slattery’s real-life wife!).
4. Being invited into John and Carolyn’s couples therapy session, however fictional it may be, feels…icky.
5. “I cannot be the third person in my marriage”…Diana boots!
6. It seems Mom and Dad are not into trial-separating, but the bad vibes from the last episode continue, so…something’s gotta give!
7. I feel like couples therapists are supposed to back down if both members of said couple don’t like a suggestion, aren’t they?
8. Ah, to be smoking a cigarette with Paul Anthony Kelly in a dimly lit dive bar.
9. How much residual money is Radiohead making from this show?
10. When a Kennedy drops by to “get that linen blazer,” you know it’s on.
11. This feels like the most legit sex scene we’ve gotten all season. I guess it’s important to go out with a bang… (literally)?
12. Hot elevator-kiss flashback!
13. Wait, yeah…who’s had Friday this whole time? Carolyn? John? Some secret third party?
14. Oy vey iz mir, Rory’s wedding.
15. I like Caroline’s sunglasses.
16. “You aren’t Dad”…brutal, but true.
17. Aw, it’s nice to see Caroline actually supporting this marriage, close-to-over though it may be.
18. Hearing the Bessette sisters plan the flight that eventually killed them is…a lot.
19. Who uses the word “jettison” in casual conversation with their sister?
20. Or “by your own volition,” for that matter?
21. Aw, Carolyn’s at the George gala!
22. Dido needle-drop?!?!!?!?!!?
23. Does Gen Z even know about Dido?
24. I guess they will now!
25. Speaking of Gen Z and this show…we’re so back at Panna II!
26. So The Rules rules really go out the window once you fall in love, huh?
27. If even CBK stopped playing it coy when she actually fell for a man, what hope did I ever have?
28. Sorry to keep being annoying about dialogue, but…“build a life for ourselves as partners”?
29. Is this a marriage or a legal merger?
30. I guess a marriage is a bit of a legal merger, but I digress.
31. John’s backwards baseball cap is so lesbian (complimentary).
32. Or is it more frat-boy-pushing-40?
33. Either way, I’m upset at how much I don’t hate it.
34. Wait, Caroline wasn’t even going to the wedding John and Carolyn were en route to during the plane crash?!?
35. Ugh.
36. Ugh again—we’re picking up from the scene in the pilot of Carolyn getting her nails done and John being pissed off in the car 🙁
37. Oh, come the fuck on, we’re going inside the plane during what are (presumably) the moments before the end?
38. Did we strictly need to see this?
39. Oh, poor Caroline.
40. Poor Ann-Marie Messina, for that matter!
41. She told John never to take more than one of her daughters on a plane!
42. Okay, now we’re hitting stuff I actually remember (news reports about John, Carolyn, and Lauren going missing).
43. Not that this is about me in any way, but this did all go down on my real-life sixth birthday.
44. Emmy for Grace Gummer!
45. Oh, Ann-Marie is pissed (rightfully).
46. If ever I suffer an untimely death, I’m going to need someone to go over to my apartment and hide any personal notes or anything else I might not want my mother to see.
47. LOL, Ann-Marie really called Ed dumb as hell (basically).
48. You know what, Emmy for Constance Zimmer, too!
49. Let’s throw those little gold statuettes out like confetti!
50. “We are Kennedy women and we’re still here. And that can’t be for nothing.” Go off, Ethel!
51. Aw, this last shot of John and Carolyn at the beach is sad and lovely.
52. John’s kind of got a Don-Draper-in-the-last-scene-of-Mad Men glow to him.
53. Well, that’s a wrap!
54. See you next season (I hope) for…whatever it is we’re in for!